A future Super Bowl in Denver may well hinge on the NFL owners meetings next week in Orlando, Fla.

In the past year or so, the Broncos and the city of Denver have been working on an application to bid on a Super Bowl in either 2018, 2019 or 2020.

While momentum for a possible Denver bid is not dead, it's at least put on hold. The NFL annual meetings will be held Sunday through Wednesday at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes resort.

"We're interested to hear what comes out of committee meeting that takes place Sunday in terms of their views of how New York went, No. 1, and No. 2, the future of outdoor-stadium Super Bowls at cold-weather sites," said Broncos president Joe Ellis.

Besides Denver, cold-weather teams with outdoor stadiums that might be interested in hosting a Super Bowl include Chicago, Philadelphia, New England, Seattle and Kansas City.

The first 47 Super Bowls were held in either warm-weather climes or cold-weather cities with indoor stadiums. Super Bowl XLVIII, in which the Broncos were destroyed by the Seattle Seahawks, 43-8 on Feb. 2, was the first time the NFL's big game was held in the cold-weather site of East Rutherford, N.J., and in an outdoor venue that was MetLife Stadium.

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"Before we pass judgment on Denver's bids, we need an honest assessment and this week's report will give us some guidance as to whether we should pursue a future Super Bowl or not," Ellis said. "I will say this: New York and New Jersey did a spectacular job of hosting the game."

The New York-New Jersey area has been enduring a harsh winter, although it caught a break on Super Bowl Sunday when the kickoff temperature was 49 degrees.

A couple hours after the game, a massive snowstorm struck the area, forcing either airport shutdowns or significant delays that stranded many Super Bowl attendees for a night or two.

Had the Monday storm hit on Super Bowl Sunday, Denver's chances to host a Super Bowl may have been nil.

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